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<h2>TEXT MARKUP</h2>
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<h3>SSML: Speech Synthesis Markup Language</h3>
The following markup tags and attributes are recognised:<p>
<dl></dl>
<p><b>&lt;speak&gt;</b>
<ul>
<li>xml:base &nbsp; (the value is just passed back as a parameter with the UriCallback() function)
<li>xml:lang
</ul>

<p><b>&lt;voice&gt;</b>
<ul>
<li>xml:lang
<li>name
<li>age
<li>variant
<li>gender
</ul>
<p><b>&lt;prosody&gt;</b>
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<li>rate
<li>volume
<li>pitch
<li>range
</ul>
<p><b>&lt;say-as&gt;</b>
<ul>
<li>interpret-as="characters"
<li>interpret-as="characters" &nbsp;format="glyphs"
<li>interpret-as="tts:key"
<li>interpret-as="tts:char"
<li>interpret-as="tts:digits"
</ul>
<p><b>&lt;mark&gt;</b> name
<p><b>&lt;s&gt;</b>
<ul>
<li>xml:lang
</ul>
<p><b>&lt;p&gt;</b>
<ul>
<li>xml:lang
</ul>
<p><b>&lt;sub&gt;</b> alias
<p><b>&lt;tts:style&gt;</b>
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<li>field="punctuation" &nbsp; mode=none,all,some
<li>field="capital_letters" &nbsp; mode=no,spelling,icon,pitch
</ul>
<p><b>&lt;audio&gt;</b> src
<p><b>&lt;emphasis&gt;</b>
<ul>
<li>level
</ul>
<p><b>&lt;break&gt;</b>
<ul>
<li>strength
<li>time
</ul>
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<h3>HTML</h3>
eSpeak can speak HTML text directly, or text containing both SSML and HTML markup.<br>
Any unrecognised tags are ignored.<p>
The following tags case a sentence break.<br>
<b>&lt;br&gt; &nbsp;
&lt;dd&gt; &nbsp;
&lt;li&gt; &nbsp;
&lt;img&gt; &nbsp;
&lt;td&gt; &nbsp;
</b><p>
The following tags case a paragraph break.<br>
<b>&lt;h1&gt; &nbsp;
&lt;h2&gt; &nbsp;
&lt;h3&gt; &nbsp;
&lt;h4&gt; &nbsp;
&lt;hr&gt; &nbsp;
</b><p>
Text between the following tags is ignored.<br>
<b>&lt;script&gt; &nbsp; ... &nbsp; &lt;/script&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&lt;style&gt; &nbsp; ... &nbsp; &lt;/style&gt; &nbsp;<br>
</b><p>
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